Sarah Ruth Sippel is Professor of Economic Geography and Globalisation Studies at Münster University. She has worked on the intersection between export agriculture, rural livelihood security, and labour migration in North Africa and the Western Mediterranean, and on the financialisation of farmland in Australia. In her most recent research, she investigates the research and development of digital farming technologies in Silicon Valley and other technology development hubs. She also has an interest in diverse economic practices, which she has started exploring in rural Italy. She is the Principal Investigator of an 8-year research project on imaginations of land funded by the German Research Foundation (C04, SFB 1199).